This is the information page about the shipwreck Hovde (possibly) or barbro, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 48 57.515 N,4 10.517 W (48.915666666667, -4.3681666666667)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. Aboukir bay
2. Adieu-va
3. Alcide
4. Alit
5. Alppi
6. Anna
7. Argonaut
8. Argonaut (possibly)
9. Awelic
10. Bainbridge
11. Barbro (possibly)(or hovde)
12. Batavia
13. Bellamy
14. Castro
15. Christina coast
16. Cornelis b
17. Crane barge
18. Danevirke
19. Dunkerquois
20. Eumaeus
21. Fremona
22. Germania
23. Holly branch
24. Hovde (possibly) or barbro
25. Kristina coast
26. Lagardere
27. Manchuria
28. Moroe (or horde)
29. No. 487
30. Oswald
31. Rene marthe
32. Strathtay
33. T-27
34. Tanio (bow only)
35. Therese et marie
36. Welsh princess
37. Wilfried
38. Zelza
39. Zh 1

 

Name: HOVDE (POSSIBLY) OR BARBRO

Length 73.8 meter, width: 10.1 meter, draught: 4.9, tonnage 1196 ton
Load: chemicals

Cause: built in 1888 by blyth shipbuilding co. owned at the time of loss by stranger & co. passage nantes for okien. torpedoed by german submarine. (dods & ll ww1)

Year of registration: 1974

Water depth above wreck: 85 meter

Known since: 1974, last detected: 2021

Details measurements/cartography: H3449/74 29.2.74 WK, LEAST DEPTH 84.8MTRS [46FMS], SHOWN IN 485736N, 041027W [EUR] ON FRENCH SURVEY [K6847/10]. BR STD. 26.8.77 WK 75.4MTRS IN 485735N, 041022W [EUR]. GEN DEPTH 85MTRS BY V/S & E/S. (FRENCH WK RECORDS DTD 18.10.76). 2.9.77 SHOWN AS NDW (75) ON FRENCH 6680 [INT 1708]. 20.11.78 SHOWN AS WK 75MTRS [41FMS] IN 485736N, 041027W ON FRENCH 6680. NE 2644. 10.8.87 SHOWN AS WK 81MTRS ON FRENCH 6680 [1986 EDN]. BR STD. 25.2.09 SHOWN IN 4857.515N, 0410.517W [WGD] ON FRENCH 6680 [3RD EDN 2003, CORRECT TO NM 42 29 08, 1:150,000, LARGEST SCALE ADOPTION]. NC 2647.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 48 57.515 N,4 10.517 W

 

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